Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-05-22

n I LOVE YOU WITH MY WHOLE HEAhI'
'Oh, John, | love You with all my
hearth
And now | think that we may drop a
veil over the rest of these proceedings, for
there are some things that should besacred,
even from the pen of the historian, and the
first transports OF the love Of a pure wom-
an is one OF them.
Suffice it to say thai they sat there side
by side on that sod wall, as happy as peo-
pie ought to be under such circumstances,
till the glory deprted from the western sky
and the world grew cold and pale, till the
night came down and hid the mountains,
and only the stars and they were left to
look out across the dusky distances of the
wilderness Of plain.
Meanwhile a very different scene was
being enacted up at the house, half a mile
away. .
Not more than ten mintes after John and
his lady-lOve had departed on that tateful
| walk to look at the yOnng trees, Frank
Muller's stalwart form, mounted on his
great black horse, was to be seen ~lelsurely
advancing towards the blue-gum avenue.
Jantje was lurking about between the
| stems OF the trees in the peculiar fashion
! that is Characteristic of the HottentOt, and
! which doubtless is bred into him after tens
| of centuries OF tracking animals and hiding
from foes. There he was, slipping from
turnk to trunk, and gazing round him as
though he expected each instant to dis
cover the aSSegai of an ambuShed foe or to
hear the fOotfull of some savage beast OF
M ,hznlnfa No raalnn NVhV
he should be carrying on in this fashion;
he was simply indulging his natural In
stinet where he thought nobody would OBJ
| serve him. Life at MOoitOntein was al
together too tame and civilized for J~antje's
| taste. and he absolutely needed periodical
| ~Feereations Of this sort. Like q civilized
child he longed for wild beasts and enc
mics, and If there were none handy ne
/ found q reflected satisfaction In making a
~pretence of their presence.
Presently, however, while they were yet
a long way of, his quick ear caught the
sound of the horses footballs, and he
| Strengthened himself and listened. Nos
satisfied with the results, he laid himself
down, put his ear to the ground, and gave
a cultural grunt of satisfaction.
'blNS IL Talk y ul1Ch hOAoNr
10 himself. 1.-THE black horse has cracked
heel and one foot hits the ground more
softely than the Others. What IL q
Frank coming here for? After missile
Bessiel, | think. He would be mad If he
knew that missile went down To the plan
tation With Raas Mel Just now. People 60
into plantations to kiss each other Jamie
was not far out therel and it would make
Baas Frank mad IL he knew that lie
would strike me if l told him, or L would
tell hiG."
The horses hools were getting near by
now, so Jantje slipped as easily and
naturally as a snake into q thick TUT Of
rank grass that grew between the blue
gums, and waited. Nobody would have
guessed that that tuft of grass hid 0 hui
man being; not ever . BOer would have
guessed it, unless he had happened to walk
right on to the spy, and then 1t woui nave
been a chance but h the Hottentot would
have managed to avoid being trodden on
and escaped detection. There was, again,
no reason why be should hide himself II
this fashion, except that it pleased him t.
do 30.
Presently the big horse approached, anC
suakelike Hottentot raised his head eYel
80 little and peered out with his beady
black ewes through the strawlike grass
stems. They fell ON Muller'S cold face
n was evident that he was in n reflective
mood-in an angrily reflective mood. 81
absorbed was hethath he nearly let his horse
which was also absorbed by the near pros
meet Of comfortable stall, put his foo'
into a big hole that . wandering antbeal
had amused himself on the previous n'ghi
by digging right in the centre OF the road
'F'What is Baas Frank thinking of, ]
WopdeF9' said Jamie to himself as hors'
and passed within four feet Of him. Ther
rising, he crossed the road, and slipping
round by q back way like a fox from
covert, was standing ut the stable-dOol
with a vacant and utterly unObseryant eX'
nression of face some seconds before the
black horse and it's rider had reached Tho
house.
81 viii give them one more chance, just
one moraH thought the handsome Boer, OF
rather haif-breed FORT will be remembered
that his mother was English), 'and if they
won't take il, then let their fate be upoE
their own heads. Tomorrow | 60 to the
hymakaar at Paarde Kraai to take counse
with PauI Kruger and Pretorius, and the
other fathers OF the land rs they cal
themselves. II ] throw in ny weigh
AGAINST rebellion there will be NJ rebellion
i'll urge it there viii be, and if ON silai
I. will not give me Bessie, and Bessie vii
mot DSrry me, l will urge iteven if plung'
the whole eoantry in war from the Cape Il
Waterberg. Patriotism. Independence
Tares!-tlat is what they all cry tii the,
: begin to hslieye il themselves, BAH thos'